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November 2012

Artworks

Pencil sketch on some A/5 leaf. Well, this is really on "some" A/5 leaf, although this is not as bad as some other such old pieces of mine. This was just on some thin paper with a triangle grid on it's back which would show through no matter what arcane thing you do with your scanner.

This large digital image was drawn for more than two months until it was completed (Or better to say I thought there is no much to do with it any more). It is one of my better pieces although it suffers some coloring problems. The theme would be an abandoned city on Earth, with cheetaans wandering around seeking for the sunshine. This is a part of the "original" cheetaan story, that is the story of the first interstellar war between human and cheetaan.

Tanis exploring some burnt down ruins. They could be Tikireni and Xitka from New World 2648, blue eyes for a Xi are not common. The Xi is the dark wolf-like creature, the Nir is the cheetah. The background is an own photograph, taken of a small burnt-down and abandoned summerhouse.

Title screen plan for the Cheetaan Legacy game. It might need some color adjustments (There is a dark red color which might be invisible on some displays) which I might do at a later time editing this graphics further. The problem is mainly that my monitor has a really weird color space at darker color levels.

Signal from the Sky album cover art, for David K. Newton. This is my first real commission work, started from his sketches, and dreamed further after his tunes then upcoming under the title Signal from the Sky!

A visit to London! Second time I was really abroad, this time with my sister for a few days of low-cost sightseeing, staying at one of her friend for free. The dragon itself is to be found on Fleet Street, near the Royal Courts of Justice, standing out from the middle of the two-lane road.

Probably the scariest ride of Budapest Amusement Park. This thing rotates around in all directions several times turning you upside down. Well, it would probably be nifty to try it out, but not for my stomach which would rather throw itself up before to stay out of that! Watching it was interesting, though - and from the "crowd" on it, I guess I wasn't alone with this thought!

A bridge over the two parts of an abandonned public pool facility in Hungary, in the city of Miskolc. This broken bridge could well represent my mood back then. That was one of my last days in Miskolc, near the Bükk mountains, one of the most beautiful parts of the country where I lived for years. I hated university, but probably I hate more large cities where I have to live nowadays for my job.

A visit to London! Second time I was really abroad, this time with my sister for a few days of low-cost sightseeing, staying at one of her friend for free. That's an amazing city, well, this now may sound strange with me writing in English. I am Hungarian, and compared to our well, excuse-of-a-capitol almost-a-public-litter-bin, all I could say, amazing. It was thrilling to explore that diverse place, and it seemed it could go on for heaven knows how long if we could stay.

View from the Ferris wheel in Budapest Amusement Park, towards the east. On the right behind the trees the tracks of the Spinning Coaster are visible, on the bridge a typical Tatra tram serving line 1 is passing.

The Ferris Wheel of Budapest Amusement Park. We took a ride on it even at night, it was interesting, but not for photographing. The wheel slowly advancing was not really suitable for night shots with long exposure.

"No reruns". The ride "Kanyargó" in Budapest Amusement Park, with that sign telling people to get off and re-queue, probably indicating the fate of the park. This is an interesting old ride (I heard 1925 as it's construction date, it is also visible on an 1960 film) with cars on small wheels rolling around free pulled by the main chain giving an out of control experience. I don't know if it is planned to be preserved.

The inverting swing in Budapest Amusement Park, with the massive building of Széchenyi Bath behind. The image was taken from the Ferris Wheel. The swing itself was an interesting, but quite nauseating experience!

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Probably one of the most condensed scenery possible on the cheetaan homeworld before the wars. A huge gas-giant, exomoons, a gargantuan creature resembling a tiger, a cheetah riding a feathered wyvern over crystalline buildings scattered in a swamp, anything missing?

Signal from the Sky album cover art, for David K. Newton. This is my first real commission work, started from his sketches, and dreamed further after his tunes then upcoming under the title Signal from the Sky!

Website design for my content used in 2011 and early 2012. This was a dynamic width design created to work with Drupal 7 (The screenshot shows just the static part before implementing it as a Drupal theme). I had two mayor problems with this design: For one it took not too much to feel it just too egocentric for that cheetah with a beard (I have beard), and for one technically the dynamic width solution had some important problems.

Huh, is this a six limb dragon? Which flies? Just continuing my adventure contriving big flying beasts who hopefully have some chance against fantasy creatures' most dire enemy: real world physics. He doesn't have six limbs, rather he is a derivative of the Draco Lizard, which evolved gliding by modified ribs.

Tanis exploring some burnt down ruins. They could be Tikireni and Xitka from New World 2648, blue eyes for a Xi are not common. The Xi is the dark wolf-like creature, the Nir is the cheetah. The background is an own photograph, taken of a small burnt-down and abandoned summerhouse.

Title screen plan for the Cheetaan Legacy game. It might need some color adjustments (There is a dark red color which might be invisible on some displays) which I might do at a later time editing this graphics further. The problem is mainly that my monitor has a really weird color space at darker color levels.

Flight of a Dragon is a retro style game for the Uzebox open source game console, a bit of 8 bit madness involving an ATMega 644 and a bit of electronics to get it producing a video signal and accepting input from an SNES controller. Now the game is complete so you can finally lead the dragon to his salvation! Thanks to emulation, you may also try it out within your browser!

Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus reconstruction (at least an attempt at it), as of 2015 knowledge: the Ibrahim et al. papers from 2014 and the later adjustments on the hindlimb size, discarding the quadrupedal stance. Fleshed out according to some own ideas as well as various existing knowledge on the animal.

Yet another wyvern design aiming for realistic capability of flight and a dragonlike appearance, a controversial beauty. She has no direct relation to the gold wyverns of Outbreak to the Sky, although those were one inspiration source to design her.

The summer started with a beautiful passing storm at sunset at my location, a rare and amazing sight. As I realized what was going on, I rushed out quickly grabbing my old Olympus C2500L camera to witness and photograph this phenomenon...

I just kind of pondered about quadrupedal takeoff, trying to capture an essential moment of it. I imagine wyverns of similar build often taking off by a short run to gain some speed, then using their wing-arms to launch themselves, assisting with their hind legs if those are sufficiently powerful for this.

An European Green Lizard in the hills above Budapest, Hungary. Spring came, so the insects started crawling out from their winter hideouts, and then that's the start of the game for the lower hunters of the food chain, the lizards. It took a while to get this one, about a hour of waiting the thing to come off from a thorny bush where it hid, but it did worth!

We are European. A quick image sketched up portraying myself in the protests of April, 2017, Hungary, protesting against the actions of the government leading Hungary out of Europe and humanity itself, back to the dark ages. An now I have a flag of the European Union!

This large digital image was drawn for more than two months until it was completed (Or better to say I thought there is no much to do with it any more). It is one of my better pieces although it suffers some coloring problems. The theme would be an abandoned city on Earth, with cheetaans wandering around seeking for the sunshine. This is a part of the "original" cheetaan story, that is the story of the first interstellar war between human and cheetaan.

The 15th March is special in Hungary, we would be celebrating the anniversary of an important uprising, one against the Hapsburg dynasty demanding more autonomy for our country within their empire. It was the pinnacle of the age of reformation, but one which later got usurped like all the other movements happening in that year. Then, today... It seems like people here lost all their sanity siding with an oppressive government and very few caring of any movement which tries any reformation.